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The United States government does many things in many places. Intelligence services will often, willingly work with seriously disturbed criminals. If the criminals also happen to be the power brokers in a region of interest, then all ends justify whatever means are necessary to achieve those ends. Remember that photo of Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein? Remember all those articles about the United States training and funding bin Laden’s Afghan army during the Soviet/Afghan war?

It’s no secret. At this point it’s a joke. Assets become enemies, or unexpected blowback ushers in a Global Age of Terror. In the documentary Why We Fight, former CIA agent Chalmers Johnson discussed the idea of blowback. “Blowback,” he said “does not mean simply the unintended consequences of foreign operations, it means the unintended consequences of foreign operations that were deliberately kept secret form the American public; so that when the retaliation comes, the American public is not able to put it in context, put cause and effect together; that they come up with questions like why do they hate us?”

Finding out who our government is working with and what the consequences of that work may be, is extremely important. Because of the vagaries of this information and the difficulty or lack of interest is takes to find it, most of it goes unnoticed for a generation. Years ago, investigative reporter Gary Webb put together a compelling series accusing the CIA of working with central American drug dealers. During the 1980’s these dealers protected as assets in order to fund the war against the Contras. As a result of this the United States was flooded with high grade Central American cocaine, sparking among other things, the crack epidemic.

At the time, Webb’s series was swift boated. (apt analogy considering John Kerry was one of his on-camera supporters, see Dateline video) Webb himself remained an investigative reporter until he commit suicide by the extremely rare method of multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Shortly before his death, Dateline, of all programs reinvestigated Webb’s original investigation. Here is that broadcast.

Here’s a less flashy video of John Stockwell, the highest ranking CIA whistleblower to speak out on the consequences of some of The United States’ more disturbing affiliations.